[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. (1749-1832)]. Am acht und zwanzigsten August 1826. [Jena: Fromann, 1826].
Signed first edition of the three-stanza poem ‘Gedichtes zu sechs Versen Des Menschen Tage sind verflochten…’. Goethe wrote this poem for his 77th birthday as a gift for his well-wishers. There are two variants, one with a floral border as in the present lot; the other has an arrow motif border. Hagen 456.
Broadside (213 x 144mm). With floral border printed on J. Whatman watermarked paper (lightly browned, top two corners with very small repairs, small mounting marks on verso). Provenance: authorial inscription ‘Weimar Goethe’ at bottom.
[GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. (1749-1832)]. Am acht und zwanzigsten August 1826. [Jena: Fromann, 1826].
Signed first edition of the three-stanza poem ‘Gedichtes zu sechs Versen Des Menschen Tage sind verflochten…’. Goethe wrote this poem for his 77th birthday as a gift for his well-wishers. There are two variants, one with a floral border as in the present lot; the other has an arrow motif border. Hagen 456.
Broadside (213 x 144mm). With floral border printed on J. Whatman watermarked paper (lightly browned, top two corners with very small repairs, small mounting marks on verso). Provenance: authorial inscription ‘Weimar Goethe’ at bottom.
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